{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY July 24, 2019-------------hapless

WORD OF THE DAY July 24, 2019

hapless    adjective | HAP-lus   Definition   : having no luck : unfortunate   Scroll down for more about hapless     TRENDING NOW: condemn gerrymander gerrymandering concentration camp SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   On the History of the 'Rolling Stone'     Is It 'Jail' or 'Prison'?   A Journey to the Moon in 12 Words     The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 7/19/19       WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE     What's that Smell?! Quiz   Words for odors and such...     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try! TAKE ME THERE        Did You Know?   Hapless literally means what you'd expect it to mean: "without hap"—hap being another word for fortune or luck. Hap derives from the Old Norse word for "good luck," a word that is also the source of our happen and happy. English has several words to describe those lacking good fortune, including ill-starred, ill-fated, unlucky, and luckless, a word formed in parallel to hapless by adding the suffix -less. Ill-starred suggests bringing calamity or the threat of a terrible fate ("the ill-starred year the Great Depression began"). Ill-fated refers only to being doomed ("the ill-fated voyage of the Titanic"). Unlucky and luckless usually apply to a person or thing notably or chronically unfortunate ("an unlucky slots player," "some luckless investors swindled in the deal").     Examples of HAPLESS   "Whatever your view of Team USA's rout over Thailand or the way they celebrated every goal over that hapless opponent, the 13-0 opening victory fueled conversation and interest for Sunday's United States-Chile match." — Phil Rosenthal, The Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2019   "David Bareford got into violence design when he was living in Chicago and struggling along as 'an OK actor in a town where there were a million OK actors….' He decided not to fight those odds; instead he embraced the stage-combat skills that came from acting in Shakespeare tragedies, which usually involve kings, soldiers and other hapless figures eagerly running one another through." — Scott Hewitt, The Columbian (Vancouver, Washington), 13 June 2019   Name That Synonym   Unscramble the letters to create a synonym of hapless: tsinabek.   VIEW THE ANSWER              MORE WORD FUN:       WORD GAMES            TRENDING NOW            WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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